Archives - 06 August 2013, Tuesday

In the development of new business models for mobile and online commerce, some see micropayments as a crucial element that promises a lot, yet remains elusive. While micropayments could allow, for example, new media models where a user can pay a very small amount to read an article, t...

Things have gotten increasingly messy this year for Mt. Gox, Bitcoin's largest exchange. There was the whole currency crash in April followed quickly by a DDoS attack directed at the exchange. Next came the US government stepping in to seize Mt. Gox funds from Dwolla, a mobile payment...

When US servicemen Bradley Manning was found guilty on 20 counts in connection with leaking classified military information, experts mused that bitcoin was instrumental in the continuing operation of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website that he helped. In a panel at the Inside Bitcoi...

The CFTC provided more information on substituted compliance – where non-US swap dealers and foreign branches of US dealers can apply foreign rules on clearing and reporting, so long as the CFTC determines the rules are equivalent to Dodd-Frank (www.risk.net/2281426). Do you now under...

You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees We launched an exciting feature today: off blockchain micro-transactions between Coinbase accounts! Here is a bitcoin transaction I just sent myself for 1 satoshi (that is 0.00000001 Bitcoin). The transaction: arrived instantly confir...

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SatoshiDice is an internet gambling company which relies on the bitcoin block chain (the public ledger of all bitcoin transactions) to facilitate betting and payout. The company gained popularity quickly after its launch in April 2012 and saw approximately 4M BTC flow through its syst...

Just as Soylent is disrupting the traditional food industry, Bitcoin is revolutionizing the way value is transferred between individuals and businesses. A completely decentralized online currency, Bitcoin is rapidly gaining traction among tech-savvy early adopters and the wider online...

The Bitcoin market is hot these days as many investors flock to the decentralized digital currency. But because there is only a fixed number of Bitcoin, and the majority of it is tied up by early adopters, investors who are looking to make a new entry into the cryptocurrency space may...

Print Email Reprints Comment Tweet BitWall, a Bitcoin content monetization startup, will launch this month to allow people to sell low-value digital content, putting one of the digital currency's favored use cases to the test. "For years now, people have been calling for micropayments...

Things have gotten increasingly messy this year for Mt. Gox, Bitcoin's largest exchange. There was the whole currency crash in April followed quickly by a DDoS attack directed at the exchange. Next came the US government stepping in to seize Mt. Gox funds from Dwolla, a mobile payment...

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(Reuters) - U.S. regulators got the green light from a federal judge to proceed with their lawsuit against a Texas man accused of running a Ponzi scheme using Bitcoin , the virtual online money system. Trendon Shavers of Bitcoin Savings & Trust had challenged the Securities and Exchan...